POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Status of Moray? : Re: New SDL for POVRay Server Time
12 Jul 2025 06:44:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New SDL for POVRay  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 12 Sep 2007 14:51:20
Message: <46e83528$1@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:38:41 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> IIRC (and I probably don't), unrolling loops (in particular) is an
>> optimization;
> 
>   So how do you unroll a loop which depends eg. on the color of a pixel,
> determined at rendertime?

I presume that would be done when the SDL is parsed and the colour was 
determined.  Just at a guess - I don't claim any expertise.

I think what andrel was getting at was not that users should code in 
tokenized form, but instead was suggesting a way that the developers 
might use the tokenized/bytecode generated from the parser.

Jim


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